#Monsterdon Party! At the Hill

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Yeah so why is the inside of the tunnel red? Don't go in the red tunnel.

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Martian rave?

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Very cool cave. 20 years later it was known to be the site of many raves. #monsterdon

/me has ideas about using @peertube in conjunction with #Monsterdon and wonders if others have already been doing it.

#Monsterdon I hope the devoured frog gets revenge. And the dissected ones do too (I was lucky, I never had to dissect anything beyond an owl pellet in 4th grade, which was cool. A+ would love to dissect Owl pellets again I'm not a vegetarian but I would have been uncomfortable with dissecting any animals)

"we are trapped" "help us"
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Martians do like their fancy spotlights.

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muuuuuuuch bigger sets than the original

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alternately, insert Star Control 2 dnyarri reference #monsterdon

I just noticed the plaid lampshade is on a CAT LAMP #monsterdon #invadersfrommars1986

Is this one of those giant replica colons? Watch out for polyps, kid! #Monsterdon

I like how they're bouncing up and down a little bit.

Oooom!

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@diazona sounds like a reddit post. Today, a soundtrack started playing over my day! What does it mean if the music turns creepy? Also, a countdown appeared over all my loved ones' heads. #monsterdon

Yeah, follow the evil teacher, it's not like it put you in trouble before, kid.
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@Zerofactorial #monsterdon #BechdelPass

Announcement before all Martian doorways:

"Mind the gap!"

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has #monsterdon watched pod people yet? if not... why not?

Historical note: in 1986, people had an expectation of medical privacy.

I'm surprised the nurse immediately trusted the kid's suspicions were well founded and helped him, against genre conventions.

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Sad burnt pile of bacon. #monsterdon

Evil Is Visceral™

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#Monsterdon putting the taxi in taxidermy

Wait, is this why Elon started the Boring Company?

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She teaches taxidermy in the evenings? #monsterdon

is this like the cave from pod people

full of smuckers raspberry preserves???

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@Taweret I think the allegory is different in this movie in that the narrative highlights the creepiness of everyday life <-deep analysis.

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@aburka TBH it would be kind of a dope superpower to have a soundtrack for your life

(pretty sure I've seen that somewhere, it was fun)

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Kid won't go to Copper Hill with his parents but he's just fine going on his own, trailing the teacher who threatened him? Where was he when they were handing out brains?
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The scene in the school hallway where the parents are yelling at Karen Black, it's the technique from Jaws #monsterdon

i always go down every arterially-lit tunnel i see, just for funsies, you know. #monsterdon

This boy looks like a young John Denver. #Monsterdon

Meanwhile, in the colon caves.

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Wait, so the mean teacher left the door to her panel van filled with her taxidermy projects wide open, in the school parking lot, and no one tried to fill the van with shaving cream?

This movie lacks verisimilitude!

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Oooo a lava tube! Let's explore.

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#Monsterdon trapped! In the van

wait, we've been invaded by Horta?

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Oh hey, Trumpy cave. #Monsterdon

Kid thinks he needs to investigate everything. What good is investigating if you're just going to get caught? Are you trying to get hired as a penetration tester?

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Of course the plot must be advanced 🛸

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@neia They must be ... "FORWARD THINKERS!" --Dad #Monsterdon

Can't you hear the soundtrack, kid? You're walking into their trap! #monsterdon

#This teacher was a weirdo before become martian
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#Monsterdon Do you think Mean teacher was into taxidermying creatures before being possessed, or after? I sort of like the idea she just took up a new hobby after her trip to get (delicious) frogs

why did they make the teacher creepy as a human? isn't the point of these kinds of stories to show noncreepy people being taken over and becoming a creepy threat? don't you want that contrast?

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At the time it came out, was this considered a family movie? #monsterdon

#monsterdon He talked to me about Thundercats mostly. Kept on going on about the sword of omens…

Kid survived the taxidermy van

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Getting into a window-less van in the '80s goes against everything I was told in the '70s.

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@ramsey (aren't they always...) 😉 #monsterdon

She going hill climbing in her professional hill climbing dress.

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Nice use of the Jaws shot! #monsterdon

Nice camera work following Our Hero sneaking through the fence.

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10 and 2, Sister, use your mirrors

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Is that a focus-pull shot - so it looks like the hallway is creeping closer and closer?

#Monsterdon no there's one in the van aliens must not use it.

Steal the van, David! Joyride! #Monsterdon

Do I need the boy, or the jar of loose change? ...jar of loose change. #monsterdon

Wait she didn't tell him to wait in the teacher's van? Points deducted, not smart

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Oh dammit, what do they call this camera technique! Anyway, it's not working here #monsterdon

#Monsterdon I love that the answer is for the kid to go out the window to the nurses house lmao

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I'll just hide in this murder van.
I'm sure it will be fine.

#Monsterdon Does she not have a rearview mirror????

TIL aliens don't use their rear view mirrors.

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Such menacing pony tail shadows 😄#Monsterdon

omg it's Kai Winn #monsterdon

This teacher seems to think the nurse is her sister. #Monsterdon

Ralph Wiggum is in danger #monsterdon

I don't care how scared I am of body snatchers. I'm not getting in the taxidermy van #monsterdon

A Ford Escort.

That brings back memories - mostly of visits to the auto parts store.

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Now I know what I want to be for halloween! Minibrain!

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#Monsterdon is the little girl who's name I forgot wearing her dress backwards?????

Wait. Is the teacher French? #Monsterdon

@SnoopJ Good catch. Yeah, she was a doctor in the original. #Monsterdon

Kid, don't get in the creepy van. Have you not been listening to the PSAs?

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At least everyone got band-aids on their alien ouchies

The nodding. #monsterdon

Something something white people realizing they've been living next to fascist for 50 plus years 🩹

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It's a pity this isn't in the same universe as The Explorers.

Louise Fletcher and Robert Picardo!

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The bandage is from when a sniper tried to shoot her from a rooftop #monsterdon

generally, kids, getting in a panel van in the 1980s is Bad News(tm). #monsterdon

E's been jonesing for that parking spot

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Hot 'Stang!

Bet it's got the 5.0 HP engine!

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Now, she was easy convinced for a school nurse
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i too eat litter

FEED ME

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#monsterdon New teammate! SCHOOL NURSE has been added to the party. :trek_voy_janeway:

#monsterdon Don't touch me, you arne't Ed! Ed has magic fingers! Oh Ed!!!

The soundtrack thinks it's from an '80s beat 'em up. #Monsterdon

#Monsterdon I must say if I were an alien possessing people instead of conspicuous bandages I'd try either a higher neckline or covering it up with makeup (which would suck for the human down the road but that's probably not your problem)

"Oh boy. This is going to be a mess"

Lady, that was the understatement of the movie.

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“Can I see the back of your neck?”

Pick-up lines to woo the school nurse.

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I EAT LITTER, FEED ME

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FOUR SIX TWO SOUTH ARROYO

ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE

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Okay this movie is also taking the relationship between the medical adult character and our young hero to higher levels of creepiness?

Everything's just cranked up in this one, I guess

Except her rank: Linda is a school nurse, but Pat was a full-on doctor

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#Monsterdon "let me see the back of your neck." "do you start every conversation this way?"

I think if a teacher threatens the school nurse and says, “I’ll be back for him in 5 minutes,” it’s time to call the police.

Except, well, the police are also compromised.

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@jonny Well or in an Althusserian mode the whole narrative when you remove the horror element is about how schools are an Ideological State Apparatus.

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As the Wu Tang Clan would say, PROTECT YA NECK #monsterdon

I EAT LITTER FEED ME 🐧

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Oooh I just remembered: the alien drinking coffee scene (this was like 15 minutes ago) reminded me of Teal'c from Stargate SG-1

I wonder if it was a reference

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